It is certain that not one drop of rain falls without God's sure command.

...nothing good can proceed from our will until it be formed again, and that after it is formed again in so far as it is good, it is of God, and not of us.

There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which we possess are divine deposits entrusted to us for the very purpose of being distributed for the good of our neighbour.

Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.

The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself.

We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.

But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.